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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-04-09
Land Office. New Orleans. La.
March Q, 1887

Land Office. New Orleans. La,
March Q. 1887
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has ilsd notice Of his
intention to make final proof in smp-
port If his claim. an,l that said prDof
will be made before the judge. ar in his
absence. the clerk Of the district court.
at Fankiinto", La 4, on Saturday. April
30. 1887, wig:
JAMES BYRD,
Who made homeatead eotry No. $3.50,
for the south half OF the southeast quar-
ter, and south half IT scuthwest quar-
ter Of section IS, township 3, south
range - q mt, Sc. Helena meridian.
He names the following witnesses TO
prove his continnoa. residence upon
and cultivation nj said land. Wig:
John McElroy. d. w. Riobasdsnn.
L. A. Fierce and Hardy Mitchell. ell Of
WasAtsgfoa parish. II.
mhlo Ct Tass ]. BusLsa, Registss.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-04-09

Old pap.rs for sale at tlis Office.
Prizes. Is ssn.s per 100.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-04-09
Estsablislned I'm 1871
RETAIL AND WHoLRsALB

For Example. . few
Popular Goods:
HE-NO TEA. IS cts. per pound.
sold bv others in same line o. busi-
ness for IS ces.
DUFFY 8 MALT WHISKY, per
bottle, Is cts. OILERS eel Ut o..
BROWNS IRON BITTERs. per
bottle. ~ cts. Others cell at d.
MATCHES. large bcx. quarter
gross. 70 eta Sold by others Sss
Where . large quantity 10 vast
ID. in whole packages or easss.
special prices will ~ given on ap-
plieatiOn.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-04-09

GETTING RlcH In proportion to
it, size. the corporation of Coving-
ton 10 perhaps the wealthiest town
in the State. With q tax of only
Eve mills, there is a cash balance Of
$645 IS in the treasury. and no
debts to pay. This includes the
sum Of $424 20 turned in by Mar.
shall Dalion last Tuesday. This
IL the result Of economic manage
ment on tho part Of our municipal
authorities. At this rate. in ano-
thor year Covington will be able
to build . Town Hall. large enough
for I'll public purposes. including .
Council Chamber and Mayors Of
Zee. We believe this can be done,
and not interfere With work on the
s1qbstg and bridges
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-04-09

Master Hardy Smith entertained
his many young friends with a de-
ligttful party last Monday night,
on the occasion of his 7th birthday.
He sent us some Of the cake With
his compliments. and We wish him
many Lnppy returns of The day.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-04-09

Gardens are languishing for want
Of rain.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-04-09

Rev. q, r. Ellis is agitatiug the
question Of holding . grand Camp
Meeting in this parish. and has
called . meeting at the German
Settlement church. on the 29th
inst. Of all in favor Of srch . pro.
jsct. Our parish abounds in de.
lightful locations for such q pur-
pose. and it would doubtless attract
thousands from abroad and result
in great good. See notice. in ano-
Their column.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-04-09
Blackberries are red.

Huckleberries are ripe.
Tomorrow will be Easter Sun
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-03-12
STATUES IN PARMA.
Weak Fountains Sheltering Their Inade-
quacy Under Some Modern EGigy.

Weak Fountains Sheltering Their Inade-
quacy Under Some Modern EGigy.
In the square close by us is statue
to Parmeggianino of recent workman
ship and a drinking fountain. There
are but two or three shoots of water in
Parma, but even that is more than on
can find in most of these plain towns,
and, especially to the traveller who has
just left Switzerland, the loss of run
ming water is great. No Swiss village
is 50 mean, no town SO crowded, but
from an unpretending iron pipe there
gushes forth, pellucid, glittering and
opulent, stream of the purest and
freshest water, which leaps in joyous
and elastic curve into a basin with q
gay flash by night and by day, and
pours off with ungrudging profusion.
But in these Lombard towns scarcely
here and there can be found lumber
ing pump, with long and massive han
die, at which q few minutes severe toll
produces mighty poor and niggard
dribble of water. Where fountains are
they prattle with fatigued and parsi-
monious note and shelter their made
quacy under some statue in the modern
taste. AS rule the modern taste in
Italy is not one whit better than in
England. They delight to honor the
martyrs and the heroes in United Italy.
No town but has its Corso Vittorio
Emmanuel, and its Via Cavour, with
for the most part statues of the same.
Here and there is a Via Massimo
d Azeglio with no statue. These works
of art are not better than our efigies of
Mr.. Golden or Sir Robert Peel, and the
browning horror of all is statue of
Victor Emmanuel here in the Piazza di
Corte. 1t would bring blush to the
cheek of Yankee Gen
tLend1l'S MdQdzsne.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-03-12
CIGAR STUMP SALES.
The Remarkable Industry Carried On by
Enterprising Parisians. /

Enterprising Parisians.
Among the curiosities of Paris is the
market for cigar stumps in the Place
Maubert. Megot, by profession a col
lector of these stumps, initiated me one
fine morning into the mysteries of his
peculiar calling. Every day from eight
to ten a. m. the market is full of life. A
kilogramme 1.-TWO and one-fifth pounds)
of stumps from Londres' cigars is worth
30 cents to so cents, according to the
length of the stump. The ends of cigars
at and cents each only bring from 15
cents to 80 cents q kilogramme. There
are four or five wholesale dealers in
cigar stumps, who have their head
quarters in the wine shops of the vicinity,
and who there deal with the furnishers,
mostly poor old men and women and
ragged boys. Some 500 persons earn
their living after this fashion. The
amount annually produced by the traffic
is said to reach $4,000. Much of the
tobacco thus scraped together is sold to
workmen, and much is also said to be
exported under the title of "Tabac de
Paris" There is one old fellow in the
Maubert quarter who, some years ago,
became so rich at this humble business
of selling cigar stumps that he had an
annual income of SO, 900. But my friend
Megot turned out badly. Not satisfied,
| suppose, with what he was able to
CLEAN by the public way, he was recently
caught in the act of stealing in tho shop
of a tobacconist. He said, by way of
excusing himself, that he had never
heard of law which forbade taking
snuff. This, on pinch, might pass for
an excuse; but the Paris police are a
pig-headed lot, and wouldn't see the
joke. They walked poor Megot off to a
vile place of durance which they hero
call "a fiddle. Jean Moot, IN MI
toGukee Sentinel
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-03-12
BOULANGER'S YOUTH.
The Early Life of the Much-TaIked-Oi
French Minister of War.

French Minister of War.
General Boulanger's mother was an
English woman, who, when she married
M. Boulanger 0he Generals father),
was beautiful girl scarcely out of her
teens. At that period NJ. Boulange-
was an avoue, that is to say solicitor,
at Rennes. But shortly after his mar
riage he decided to sell his practice and
migrated to Nantes, where he became
an inspector in the service of the Com
pagnie d'Assurances la Bretagne. 1t
was at Nantes the present War Minis
ter of France was born, and those who
remember the mother speak of the
striking resemblance which her distin-
guished son bears to her as she then
was. Without being actually poor the
Boulangers were certainly far from
rich. There was in the family, to use
an expressive French phrase, more
bread than butter" and so, when young
Boulanger was sent to Saint Cyr, his
parents could only give him very
little pocket-money. Even when he
left Saint Cyr earlier than usual,
thanks to the need of officers
to fill up gaps caused by the Crimean
war, he had no margin for extrava-
gance, and he has since laughingly
admitted that many time when in
yited out to dine or dance he was
labiiged to make his dejeuner off ''un
chausson de pommes' in order to pay
for the kid gloves (fresh-butter color)
which he wore at the evening festivities.
He made his military debut in the Ital-
ian campaign of 1889, and was both
wounded and decorated. So severely
was he wounded, in fact, that he was
made professor at Saint Cyr, and,
though severe as master, the Sunday
evening receptions he and his wife gave
at their little house near the railway
station are still pleasantly remembered
by many of the cadets of those days.
His young wife, who had, of course,
gained her knowledge from his English
mother, was quite an adept in brewing
tea and "grogs" PAngIaiSe, while her
two little daughters. Yvonne and Mimi,
were favorites among the guests. In
1870 General Boulanger, who had re-
joined the active army, was in garrison
at Nantes, but was fortunate enough to
reach Paris with his regiment just be-
fore It's gates were finally closed. After
the war he went to Tunis, and his
recent career is too well known to need
repetition. He is firm friend of En-
gland. The day may come when his
fathers English marriage may APP
preciably affect the course of current
| events. -Lona0p Figaro.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-03-12
THE AMERICAN WIFE.
Her Rights Superior to Those Enjoyed by
Women of other Countries.

Her Rights Superior to Those Enjoyed by
Women of other Countries.
There is no married woman so COM
pletely one with her husband, as
well married American woman.
The English husband is masterful
and his wife is regarded as his
inferior in every way. He must be
appealed to on every question, from
dress to servants. A Frenchman ex-
poets his wife to live on nothing, COM
paratively, and her dress money must
be saved out of the household expenses,
Or earned in some way. The American
husband makes his wife his equal. Her
interests are his; his interests are hers.
She knows his business and whether
they can have 81, 200 or $4,000 a year
to spend. She keeps track of the
market, the crops, the strikes and has
a clear conception of every general and
personal matter that comes under her
inspection. An Englishwoman knows
nothing of her husbands business mat
teas; not any more than does his bust
ness clerk know what goes on in his
masters house. The wife never knows
if her husband is making fortune or
is on the brink of bankruptcy. She is
given so much for dress and SO much
for household expenses, and she feels
no surprise if at the end of year they
move into larger and more commodious
quarters. If she is told to pack up and
be ready to leave she asks no questions
but moves with the furniture. Detroit
TriblL1ae
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-03-12
TEMPERANCE.
THE HEARTLESS TYRANT.

Beneath our free flags swelling folds
A heartless tyrant reigns,
Who loves TO torture captive souls,
And bind with calling chains.
In dram-shop vile and grand saloon.
Behind gilt-hiding screen,
As smiling host and low bufoon,
His agents may be seen.
They watch with eagerness intense,
And lie in wait for men.
Like tigers in a Jungle dense,
And serpents in fen.
His poisoned weapon in their ands,
More cruel deeds have done
Than scalpinG-knives IN savage lands,
War clubs, or deadly gun.
All through this land are srnitten men,
Who stagger in the streets,
Lie bruised u foul fend-haunted den,
And loathsome dark retreats.
If into fair account we take
His victims seen and hid,
Their blood would make crimson lake,
Their bones Pyramid
D. that his cruelHes in naught
But murder we might findl
His most satanic work is wrought
In ruined heart and mind.
We see his baleful influence blight
The brightest hopes of earth;
And like plague, behold him smite
Great genius, fortune, worth.
Dear homes, where light of love and peace
Like summer morning shone,
He enters-joy and comfort cease,
The loving hpartS are STONE
His agents law and right defy,
In tainted purses keep
Base brides, and into stations high
By foul corruption creep;
In courts and Legislatures hide,
And ply their wicked trade,
That justice may be turned aside,
And laws unequal made.
It is no ghost political,
No shadOwy fear, see;
A despot is King Alcohol,
And foe to you and me-
To all who hate the false and wrong,
Who love the right and true;
Hence, one should be our battle song,
And one our banner, too.
In union strong, with purpose stanch,
We shall to victory 60
And hurl o crushing avalanche
Upon our common foe.
Y r. w. Horton, in Aichtgan Cj.,'cstiaa Adpt
c0Le.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-03-12
Does He Love Aught But DRINK

What sort of man is he who can al
low himself to be ruined by drink?
Does he love his wife? Can he love his
children, ard so far forget them as to
put the well-known devil in his mouth
that will certainly steal away his
brains, and steal away his heart, too,
putting in its place such heart of stone
as will permit him to go home and be
a bear in his own household? Nay,
there is no beast of the earth that
should be disgraced with the COMPARE
son of what he may become, when in
toxicated, within his own family circle
What sort of man is he? Surely he
must be vile, he must be wicked, he
must be worthlessly weak in the begin
ming, or he would not knowingly have
any thing to do with the intoxicating
beverage that would so transform him
into a demon. That is another view,
showing clearly that the evil is altogeth-
er in the man. But, friends, have it as
you will, think of it in whichever or
whatever way your pleasure or your
habit is to think; my word is spoken
to-day against the saloon as an Ameri-
can institution, with this practical pur-
poses in view-namely, that wherever
the evil really is the saloon in our
country and time is the place to fight
it.-Rev. Ddvid NJ Utter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-03-12

Gold leaf is cut by placing it on a
fiat Clean leather pad, pressing it very
gently and saving with a perfectly
straight-edged clean knife or split cane.
The best Dutch metal may replace the
gold leafif perfectly smooth. The Dutch
metal may be cut between paper by
close-shearing scissors with such long
blades that each cut is made with ono
motion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-03-12
THE QUESTION ANSWERED.

Brightly was the moon inclining
Ger her honeysuckled door;
Sweet was night-in silver shining;
Yet she yearned for something more.
Perfumes were her senses sleeping
In faint yet subtle tide;
Fragrant breath OF roses sleeping
Left her still unsatisfled.
Mid the lilacs soft lamenting,
Grieved the plaintive nightingale;
Yet she coldly, half rcsenting,
Listened hstless to his tale.
Though night such peace possessing
Should all captiousness disarm,
Yet she found herself confessing
Nature somehow failed to charm.
Did the moon smile down too brightly!
Love-bird weary with his trillY
Roses cense the air too slightly
What-ohl what-was lacking stillf
AS she pondered thus In sadness,
Stole her Lover from the door,
elapsed her TO his heart in gladness,
Then the night lacked nothing morei
Temple Bor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-03-12

THE monument which has been
erected in Mount Hope Cemetery,
Worcester, Mass, in memory of John
B. Cough has among its inscriptions
the following utterance by Cough HIM
self: al can desire nothing better for
the great country than that a barrier
high as Heaven should be raised be-
tween the unpolluted lips of the chill
dren and the intoxicating cup; that
everywhere men and women should
raise strong and determined hands
against whatever will defle the body,
pollute the mind or harden the heart
against God and His truth"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-03-12

THE report of the National Brewers
Congress, states that the consumption
of beer in the United States in 1885 ex-
ceeded that in 1884 by a million ban
rels.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-03-12

All modern high explosives are now
almost universally exploded by the
agency of electricity.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1887-02-16
Michigan Floods.

LYONS Mich, Feb. 1.-THE ice gorge Is
frozen solidly to depth of from five to ten
feet. The river is still flowing through Main
street, and merchants are building trestle-
works to their stores only to find their goods
frozen in ice. Tie cold weather has settled
the water nearly foot, but made work al
most impossible. The men working in the
water are coated with ice. The first mails
since last Wednesday arrived to day, being
carried across the gorge below. Families
who were driven from their homes without a
change of clothing, are returning in boats
through the windows to find everything
covered with ice.
At Three Rivers the water began rising
again Saturday afternoon, and this morning
II is six inches higher than the great food of
1869. Men were at work all night on the
Lake Shore track, which is only saved from
being washed out by the severe freezing.
The whole country from Lyonsito Muir pre-
sents.an Arctic panorama of desolation. Many
merchants have been unable to visit their
stores since Thursday morning, and several
who attempted it were swept down by the
current and narrowly escaped death. All
the merchants lose heavily, all manufacture
ing establishments are crippled and many
buildings ruined. The ice gorge shows no
signs of breaking, extending as p salid glacier
five miles long and fifteen or twenty feet
thick. The loss of property is enormous and
will doubt btless reach $50, 900. The Holly
Water Works building stands in the midst
of the food and has been literally ground to
pieces.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1887-02-16
Alleged Election ontraras.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 14.-Ex-Governor Ireland
of Texas, accompanied by twenty eight citi-
zens Of Washington County, Texas, passed
through this city yesterday on his way to
Washington, ID. c., where he and his COM
panions viii appear before the Senate COM
mittee which will investigate the election
cutrages made against the citizens of Wash
ington County by those Republicans who
fled the county for fear Of being lynched, and
who claim to have been driven out by the
Democrats. Ex-Governor Ireland says that
at the close of the election in Washington
County, Devices Bolton, son Of the candidate
for County Commissioner, rode up to the
precinct, dismounted and demanded admit
tsnce to the polls, He was told to come in,
and upon opening the door was shot down
in his tracks by negro named Hill. Eight
of the nine occupants of the room were ar
rested, and two of them were subsequently
lynched. The others fled the country for
fear of being similarly treated, and brought
the charge against the Democrats of the
county that they were driven out. The ex-
Governor says: "The whole story of those
men is pure fabrication. Every statement
they have made to show that they were the
objects Of political persecution is absolutely
false, and that will be easy to prove by all
these witnesses. They were not driven from
the county, but left there of their own free
will and desire.n
The Indiana State sentinel., 1887-02-16
TrnnhIe at Zanzibar.

LONDON, Feb. 14.-Advices from Zanzibar
state that the Sultan has refused to comply
with the demand of the Portuguese Gov
ernor at Mozambique to surrender the terri
tory claimed by Portugal, but recog-
nized in the Anglo German agreement
with the Sultan as belonging to Zanzibar, and
has referred the matter to the friendly
powers. Portugal has on this account rup-
tured diplomatic relations with the Sultan,
and has hauled down the Portuguese flag
from the consulate at Zanzibar. In addition
to this, number of Portuguese men-of-war
have proceeded to TuDgi, the bombardment
of which is threatened.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1887-02-16
walked eighteen piiles in His sleep.

DECATUR, Feb. 13.-Abraham Beers, the
boy who left home in his sleep Wednesday
night returned yesterday. He knows very
little of what occurred. He heard the clock
strike y, and went to sleep. When he awoke
he found himself going into a barn at the
home of his brother at Berne, south of this
city, distance Of eighteen miles, at o'clock
yesterday morning. Knowing then what
had occurred, and that his family would be
alarmed, he turned about and walked back.
When he came into the midst of the large
crowd of citizens who had organized for the
search, he was exhausted, and cried bitterly
at the trouble he had unconsciously made.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1887-02-16
A BASEBALL DEAL.
Release Of Michael Kelly, Right Fielder Of the
Chicago Baseball Club.
The Boston Club Pays S1O,O 900 for His sery-
ices-Death Of Prominent South
Horseman.

PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, Feb. 14.-Michael
Kelly, right fielder of the Chicago Baseball
Club, was released from that organization to-
day by the payment by the Boston Club of
$4,000. Kelly then signed for the season
with the Boston Club, who agree to pay him
$1,000 for his services the coming season, and
to give him $1,000 for his Photograph to
place in the club album, making his COM
pensation for the season s., 1000. Kelly re-
ceived $500 from the Chicagos last
year. The deal consummated to-day
has been under consideration for q
month. Boston had offered $500 for
Glssscock and had been prevented from get
ting him by the interposition of the League
Supervisory Committee. About a month
ago Director Billings of Boston, heard that
Kelly had said he would leave the profession
rather than play with Chicago another year,
an offer be made for Kelly's re-
lease. An offer of 5000 was made
which. President Spaulding, of the Chicago
Baseball Club, refused. saying that it would
take $4,000 to get him. Boston then
offered $4,000 and Mr.. Spaulding wrote
of $4,000, and give him until the middle of
March to talk over the matter with the other
stockholders, they could have Kelly beyond
a doubt. A week ago to-day the Boston men
wrote SpauldiDg again, saying that $4,000
would be paid for Kelly's i'm
mediate release, but that the offer
would not be left open. Friday
afternoon a reply came accepting the offer,
and on Sunday morning Director Billings
started from Boston for this place to secure
Kelly's signature. Kelly was found to-day
in the Nelson House, was shown Spaulding's
letter, and said he would not sign
for less that $1,000. An hour and a
half of discussion was used to shake
his determination and his terms were ac-
cepted. The Bostons will make further
effort to secure Glasscock. Not since the
first ''big foul," consisting of A. G. Spauld-
ing, Ross Barnes, Jim White and
Cal McVey, deserted the Boston nine
and went to CEicsgo, in 1875, has there been
a baseball deal Of as great interest to
the Boston Club as the release of Kelly by
the same organization which carried away
its four best players twelve years ago.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1887-02-16
Curious Divorce Case,

MARION, Feb. IA divorce complaint
which creates profound sensation in the
community in which the parties are well
known and of the highest standing, was filed
here yesterday. James L. FELTON, and Miss
Mary Fesler were married on New Years
Day last. When the ceremony was said the
bride informed the groom that that was as
far as it would go, and they would part. She
told him she had never loved him, in fact,
hated him, and would have nothing more to
do with him. When Felton expostulated
and became angry she emphasized her posi-
tion by hitting him with her
fist and nearly closing his eye.
Since then she has refused 10 speak to or
recognize him, and rejects all overtures
looking TO a reconciliation. Her strange
conduct is a mystery to her most intimate
friends. The facts here given are set forth
in the complaint, and FELTON, asks to be sci
free.